Supplements to Muqarnas

 

Studies and Sources in Islamic Art and Architecture:
Supplements to Muqarnas

 

What are Supplements to Muqarnas? 
Textual primary sources for visual culture are published in Studies and Sources on Islamic Art and Architecture: Supplements to Muqarnas. Fourteen of these volumes have now been published, the latest of which is
Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4). The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502–3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503–4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény, MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. Edited by Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar and Cornell H. Fleischer.

Where can I purchase Supplements to Muqarnas? 
Supplements to Muqarnas can be purchased directly through Brill in most cases. Please be aware that Supplements to Muqarnas have a limited print run and therefore some volumes may be out of print.

 

Muq Supp 14 Torok

Supplements to Muqarnas 14

Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols)

Volume I: Essays. Volume II: Transliteration and Facsimile "Register of Books" (Kitāb al-kutub), MS Török F. 59

 

Editors: Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar and Cornell H. Fleischer
Publ. 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40250-8 
Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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The Arts of Ornamental Geometry

 

 

Supplements to Muqarnas 13

The Arts of Ornamental Geometry:
A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures. A Volume Commemorating Alpay Özdural


Edited by Gülru Necipoğlu
Publ. 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-31520-4
Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muqarnas Supplements 12

Supplements to Muqarnas 12 

Mirʾāt al-quds (Mirror of Holiness): A Life of Christ for Emperor Akbar


Author: Pedro Moura Carvalho
Transcription and Translation: Wheeler M. Thackston
Managing Editor: Karen A. Leal
Publ. 2011

ISBN: 978-90-04-21574-0
Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muqarnas Supplements 11 Supplements to Muqarnas 11 

Sinan’s Autobiographies: Five Sixteenth-Century Texts 

Authors: Howard Crane and Esra Akin
Edited with preface by Gülru Necipoğlu
Managing Editor: Julia Bailey
Publ. 2006
ISBN 90-04-14168-5
Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muqarnas Supplements 10 Supplements to Muqarnas 10 

Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters 

Author: Wheeler Thackston
Managing Editor: Margaret Ševčenko
Publ. 2001
ISBN: 90-04-11961-2
E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muqarnas Supplements 9 Supplements to Muqarnas 9 

Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran 

Author: David Roxburgh
Managing Editor: Margaret Ševčenko
Publ. 2001
ISBN: 90-04-11376-2
E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muqarnas Supplements 8 Supplements to Muqarnas 8 

The Garden of the Mosques: Hafiz Huseyin al-Ayvansarayi's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul 

Author: Howard Crane
Managing Editor: Margaret Ševčenko
Publ. 2000
ISBN: 90-04-11242-1
E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muqarnas Supplements 7 Supplements to Muqarnas 7 

Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design 

Author: Attilio Petruccioli
Managing Editor: Margaret Ševčenko
Publ. 1997
ISBN: 90-04-10723-1
E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muqarnas Supplements 6 Supplements to Muqarnas 6 

Timurid Art and Culture: Iran and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century 

Author: Lisa Golembek & Maria Subtelny
Managing Editor: Margaret Ševčenko
Publ. 1992
ISBN: 90-04-09531-4
E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muqarnas Supplements 5 Supplements to Muqarnas 5 

The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana 

Author: Sheila S. Blair
Managing Editor: Margaret Ševčenko
Publ. 1992
ISBN: 90-04-09367-2
E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muq Supp 4 Ayyubid Baer Supplements to Muqarnas 4 

Ayyubid Metalwork with Christian Images 

Author: Eva Baer
Managing Editor: Margaret Ševčenko
Publ. 1989
ISBN: 90-04-08962-4
E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muqarnas Supplements 3 Supplements to Muqarnas 3 

Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction 

Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Managing Editor: Margaret Ševčenko
Publ. 1989
ISBN: 90-04-08677-3
E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muq Supp 2 Bhadresvar Shokoohy

Supplements to Muqarnas 2 

Bhadresvar: The Oldest Islamic Monuments in India 

Author: Mehrdad Shokoohy
Managing Editor: Margaret Ševčenko
Publ. 1988
ISBN: 90-04-08341-3
E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Muq Supp 1 Risale Crane Supplements to Muqarnas 1 

Risale-I Mi Mariyye: An Early-Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Treatise on Architecture 

Author: Howard Crane
Managing Editor: Margaret Ševčenko
Publ. 1987
ISBN: 90-04-07846-0
E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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